The world is experiencing a resurgence of mercantilism. On the one hand, China has been so successful as a developmental state that the USA, as the liberal hegemon, is defaulting to mercantilist strategies to fortify its structural advantage. On the other hand, the USA has been so successful in weaponizing interdependence that other states are adjusting their own strategies. Both tendencies threaten to disrupt the international political economy and engulf the international system in relentless great power competition.

CEMENT investigates family mobility/immobility practices in response to increasingly frequent drought events in Ethiopia which arise amid other social, economic and political constraints, and how internal climate migrants navigate opportunities and challenges in cities.